On the Agenda – Week 49, 2015

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4 december 2015 | This week's On the Agenda with an astronomer's dream for the future of academia, liberal arts key preparation for future leaders, the falling proportion of PhDs in permanent academic positions, researchers trying to understand radicalization in Europe and Finland leader in R&D expenditure.

Take 1 –Education

An astronomer’s dream for the future: the best students will want to go to Peking University, not Harvard https://t.co/gxEF4kix89

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) December 1, 2015

“The erosion of job security in higher education is a threat to the public university…Academics must fight it” https://t.co/Ae8eanoUoH

— Higher Education (@GdnHigherEd) December 3, 2015

5 reasons why the liberal arts are a key preparation for future leaders https://t.co/oTGlZkcZbB

— Forbes (@Forbes) December 1, 2015

Former Chinese university officer admits accepting bribes https://t.co/vCE7chQha0 via @DailyMail #China #HigherEd #Corruption

— The OBHE (@theobhe) December 3, 2015

Take 2 –Research

The proportion of PhDs in permanent academic positions is falling https://t.co/a7vnM2ugCd pic.twitter.com/2iX9B7ovbN

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) December 4, 2015

The UK’s top research collaborator is the US – 89,579 co-authored papers https://t.co/eZgo3Z2pD8 @InternationalUt pic.twitter.com/NuDdaguu0x

— Dean Hristov (@DeanHristov) December 3, 2015

For researchers, risk is a vanishing luxury: https://t.co/bETf9Z4Yrm pic.twitter.com/uZnfcJqyJW

— Chronicle (@chronicle) December 3, 2015

Terrorism researchers are trying to understand how young people in Europe become radicalized https://t.co/sKw2Pl8HYJ

— Scientific American (@sciam) December 4, 2015

Take 3 –Finland

Finland, Sweden & Denmark are leading the EU in R&D expenditure (pdf) https://t.co/CM9TsKx5TU #Eurostat #innovation pic.twitter.com/9msSU2yJZ7

— Digital Agenda (@DigitalAgendaEU) November 30, 2015

Why one journalist decided to rank Finland’s schools https://t.co/p0q473RK4O pic.twitter.com/YAujtGEUFC

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 27, 2015

A senior center in Finland wants Millennials to move in https://t.co/j45FPV0voi

— CityLab (@CityLab) December 4, 2015

Number 20 of the #Politico28 — Finland’s Ozan Yanar. Read his profile here: https://t.co/23i37RXh8P pic.twitter.com/S3J6jBwSWn

— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) December 3, 2015

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

According to the @OECD_Edu and @VanDammeEDU OER might well be a catalyst for innovation in education https://t.co/eg38F00bgQ

— ScienceGuideEU (@ScienceGuideEU) December 3, 2015